Wednesday, June 17, 2020

"Attaining New Levels of Political Power and Cultural Visibility"

"Perhaps the essence of left-conservatism is its plea for social cohesion and a concomitant rejection of post-national elites with their one-two punch of economic liberalism and the adversary culture. At root, the New Class/Anywhere elite is attached to a transnational status culture, much like Europe's aristocracy prior to the age of nations. Michael Lind captures this milieu well in The New Class War (2020), contrasting those who 'derive their personal status from their prestigious occupations, not their local or national communities; abandon their low-status class or ethnic or regional accents in order to succeed in metropolitan careers; and jettison ancestral traditions in favor of ever-changing transnational elite fashions.'"

Eric Kaufmann at Tablet describes the "Rebirth of the Left-Conservative Tradition."

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